Malaysia's 4-0 win over Turkey shot them up to 7th position in the standings.

Cut and pasted from the official site:



Standings after 5 rounds.

Rank Team Gam. + = - Pts. BH. 1 Armenia 5 4 0 1 16 58 2 Russia 5 4 0 1 14½ 61½ 3 Georgia 5 4 0 1 13½ 52½ 4 Azerbaijan 5 3 2 0 13 60 5 Iran 5 3 1 1 12 54 6 Czech Republic 5 4 0 1 12 52½ 7 Malaysia 5 3 1 1 12 46 8 India 5 2 1 2 11½ 63½ 9 Kazakhstan 5 3 0 2 11½ 49 10 Switzerland 5 3 0 2 11 57 11 Turkey-Red 5 3 0 2 11 50½ 12 Slovakia 5 2 0 3 11 43 13 Moldova 5 3 0 2 10½ 49 14 Turkey-White 5 2 1 2 10½ 47 15 England 5 2 0 3 10 49 16 Syria 5 2 1 2 9½ 59 17 Kyrgyzstan 5 1 2 2 9 47 18 South Africa-Team-B 5 1 1 3 9 39 19 Scotland 5 2 0 3 8½ 47 20 UAE-Team-B 5 1 1 3 8½ 40 21 Turkey-Turkuaz 5 2 0 3 8 51½ 22 UAE-Team-A 5 2 0 3 8 48 23 South Africa-Team-A 5 1 1 3 7 53½ 24 Turkey-Kocaeli 5 1 0 4 7 39 25 UAE-Team-C 5 1 0 4 4 44 26 Kenya 5 0 0 5 1½ 39½

Curious that Singapore didn't even send a team. Ditto for SEA Games too. What's happening to Singapore chess?